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Operation Orange Fury makes the acronym OOF, which is also vaguely funny. I should go to bed now. 😅

Sweet! Thanks for the recommendation, it’s in my quick notes that I sort through on Sundays.

Amen to that. I do my best to have meaningful conversations where I can.

That’s kinda the whole point of faith. If there was evidence, faith wouldn’t be nearly as powerful.

I’m a Christian, and I hate this movement so much. I want to hate the people, trust me, but Jesus said to love, so I must. Seriously though, separation of church and state, now please.

I love the quetzalcoatlus, it’s one of my favorite summons in D&D. 80ft fly speed, flyby, 10ft reach, 22 (6d6+2) damage with a flying charge, and only CR 2. 🤌

Not if the retirement homes take it first!

This sounds like excellent XKCD material.

So I (should be unsurprisingly) found a video essay about it. Apparently the answer is yes…?

Random Dan - Do Plants Have A Fight Flight Freeze Response?

The majority of drivers firmly believe they’re above average. Still one of my favorite things to tell people.

Names with the same or fewer syllables as “Iran War”:

• Ego War
• Fossil Farce ^(you could take that a couple different ways hehe)
• Epstein War
• F*ck Kids War
• U! S! [eagle screech that sounds like “A!”, except it’s not an eagle it’s a hawk, because eagles don’t screech like that]
• Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Bananuclear? War

Not just your stomach, but your entire digestive system actually. It’s called the enteric nervous system, and it’s absolutely fascinating (the disfunction of which has recently been linked to a lot of different diseases and disorders). From Wikipedia:

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), the others being the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS). The ENS is formed from the myenteric plexus, and the submucosal plexus, and consists of a mesh-like system of neurons that governs the functions of the gastrointestinal tract, including motility and secretion, and is known as the “second brain”.

The enteric nervous system is capable of operating independently of the brain and spinal cord

The enteric nervous system in humans consists of some 500 million neurons, 0.5% of the number of neurons in the brain, five times as many as the one hundred million neurons in the human spinal cord, and about ⅔ as many as in the whole nervous system of a cat. The enteric nervous system is embedded in the lining of the gastrointestinal system, beginning in the esophagus and extending down to the anus.

I’m getting… bougie Mad Max vibes…? This thought both confuses and amuses me.

Once I was bored so I downloaded a list of the top 100,000 passwords and counted how many have the name “Vlad” in them. It was 400-something I think. The more you know.

I love that the ^ makes the rest of it superscript. Fwiw, using code tags would fix it.

Eh, not as much as you’d think. The back of your neck near the brainstem is crucial to temperature regulation. That’s why the go-to advice to alleviate heat stress is putting something cool like a wet towel around your neck. During midday when the sun is highest, keeping the sun off the back of your neck may well keep you cooler than keeping it off your face. Using your hands to shield your eyes occasionally looks a heck of a lot less dumb than keeping your hands up to shield the back of your neck.

Moral of the story, baseball hats are great for watching baseball, where you’re sitting facing one direction the whole time and can orient them accordingly. For general outdoor work, a sun hat with a neck flap is waaayyy better.

“The Fascist Democrats” has got to be the clearest, most absolutely textbook example of projection I’ve seen yet.

Just because it’s not spelled out, doesn’t mean it’s not there. Critique made without a genuine effort to understand the cultural and historical context isn’t worth much.

Very first commandment (as summarized by Jesus) is “Love the Lord your God.” Combine that with the mandate to Adam and Eve to care for God’s creation, and the core tenant of Judaism that loving God implies obedience, and the concept of respecting that of his creation which bears his image becomes immediately obvious.

Interesting take, and not entirely wrong either imo. Though, I think the real reason is simply that such a commandment wasn’t necessary, because it was already implied from the very beginning. God gave Adam and Eve the mandate to care for his creation, and in conjunction with the fact that “Love the Lord your God” is the very first commandment (which means to follow his commandments), respecting the people that God created in his image would have absolutely unquestionable in the mind of the ancient Israelites.

The really hard to accept part is how this respect for what God made included the destruction of what is not of him, which included people. It’s a very alien concept to us today in our culture. The important part is that what you read in the Bible (esp. the Old Testament) cannot be taken at face value. Everything is seeped in historical context that often makes things seem at a glance to be the opposite of what they actually are. The translation from Hebrew and Greek compounds this problem.

TL;DR: If you want to take solace in confirmation bias, it’s not hard to do, and to blame you for doing so would be incredibly hypocritical of me. Remaining truly objective is the most grueling exercise in self-awareness and accepting uncomfortable possibilities anyone could ever undertake.